[WarEagle]

Probably.

I'm childless, more or less by choice, and 50 this year. Am I wrong to be childless? I don't think so. I, too, thought I'd make a rotten mother, so I did a career instead.

[let freedom sing]

Toys don't choose kids-- the kids choose the toys they love. How they react to them, is a matter of nature, as well as nurture. More guilt from the toy industry.

[redhead]

Every first child is born to inexperienced parents. Children born today will be the taxpayers of tomorrow, and a healthy economy is one in which that posterity is guaranteed by a steadily reproducing future. Childlessness is frequently chosen by Catholics who choose a celibate religious or priestly life. Being without children should never be condemned, but the other side of the coin is that those of us who choose to have large families should not be scorned.

[goodnesswins]

I respect people who choose NOT to have children because they know their own limitations. I'm married to a guy like that. However, I don't respect those who are childless who harp on those who choose to be parents. There is SOME reponsibility in ALL of us for the children......even if no one wants to admit it. (And, I have a problem with parents who DO have kids, but then treat them like chattel, or act as though they are burdened.) Just my 2 cents.

[mapleleafrag]

i have always felt a lack of maternal feelings ever since i can remember. i was never the teen to scoop up the kiddies and let them drool all over me. i believe it had to do with the way i was raised as my parents were not "kid" people. they treated us as little adults. as luck would have it, i have two children. i developed maternal feelings as i went along, although i could not compete with most mothers who go "ga ga" over their children. i'm divorced so my children are close to me in the sense of a single parent family. i think that those who know they would not be good parents should not have children.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Am I wrong to be childless? I don't think so."

I love my two kids like there's no tomorrow. Literally.
However, sometimes I envy my sister. She and her husband made the choice to remain childless and never looked back. Now they own a beuatiful old house on a 75 acre horse ranch and are happier than two pigs in a wallow.
I do envy them. Sometimes, only sometimes.

[r9etb]

I, too, thought I'd make a rotten mother, so I did a career instead.

But I'll bet you don't walk around whining about how you're victimized for your choice, like these idiots....

[ItsDocGerbilsWorld]

I, too, thought I'd make a rotten mother, so I did a career instead.

Not a thing wrong with that, you made the right choice for you. I didn't have a child until I could afford one, and then only one because every time I go into the grocery store and see some welfare hog with a brood of kids and one on the way, it burns me up. So, I had what I thought I could afford and no more.

[gaspar]

And I'll bet you would make a good representative of the Westminster Kennel Club.

[muggs]

I'm childless, more or less by choice, and 50 this year. Am I wrong to be childless? I don't think so. I, too, thought I'd make a rotten mother, so I did a career instead.

No I don't think you are wrong at all. I beleive that men and women that don't want children should not become preganat and bear kids. It should be a couples choice and I never ask a person when they are going to have kids. It's none of my business.

I have one child that my husband and I have devoted ourselves too. I don't regret having him but one was enough for us. I don't particularly care for other peoples kids (except infants) but would die in a heartbeat for my son.

[DonkeyHodee]

I'm childless, more or less by choice, and 50 this year. Am I wrong to be childless? I don't think so. I, too, thought I'd make a rotten mother, so I did a career instead

It doesn't necessarily work that way. A lot of great people came from rotten parents. Most 'great' parents don't have great kids. Look at W.

[angcat]

to each his own, i have one and i have people saying you have to have another, oh no i don't and i won't.

[The Irishman]

Being a mother is the greatest of all careers. And it requires only the ability to love selflessly.

As a father myself, I would not give up my state of being for anything in this world. And the knowledge I have gained about myself and what it is to be human from being a father causes me to have prejudice against the single person's ability to understand human nature in the same way that a parent does. I'm sure that this void is overcome by many but only with grace and great effort IMO.

Regards.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its not a sin agains’t God to not have children. Everyone is different. If you don’t want kids don’t have them its a big responsibility and you wouldn’t want to mess it up. I always knew I would be terrible at it. I am however a fantastic Aunt to 3 kids. I just can’t do it full time.